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ἐξηγητικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐξηγητικός ἐξηγητική ἐξηγητικόν

Structure: ἐξηγητικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or for interpretation

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἰδίωσ δὲ καλεῖται παρ’ Ἀθηναίοισ ἀπόνιμμα ἐπὶ τῶν εἰσ τιμὴν τοῖσ νεκροῖσ γινομένων καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν τοὺσ ἐναγεῖσ καθαιρόντων, ὡσ καὶ Ἀντικλείδησ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ Ἐξηγητικῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 785)
  • ἀγγεῖον δ’ ἐστὶν ἐν ᾧ τοὺσ κτησίουσ Δίασ ἐγκαθιδρύουσιν, ὡσ Αὐτοκλείδησ φησὶν ἐν τῷ Ἐξηγητικῷ γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 464)
  • ἄλλωσ τε καὶ τῶν περὶ ἥλιον καὶ σελήνην ἐπὶ τρεῖσ ἡμέρασ ἐποιοῦντο φυλακήν, ὡσ Αὐτοκλείδησ διέγραψεν ἐν τοῖσ ἐξηγητικοῖσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 23 5:5)

Synonyms

  1. of or for interpretation

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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